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Designed by You (Part 4): Broadening Your Skills

More design resources We hope that our self-teaching walkthrough helped you get started down the right path. If you get the design bug, hopefully you’ll keep looking for and watching the many tutorials out there on the near infinite number of things you can do with photo editors. But, in case you want to get…

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Designed by You (Part 3): Business Card Design

In this article we are going to take you from point A to point B in creating a unique visual aesthetic—from thinking about style, to learning techniques, to creating a fully printable design. The process is simple and the principles can be applied to any design project. Before we get started, if you’re not familiar…

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Designed by You (Part 2): A Look at Color

When you set out to design materials for a launch or just to enhance your personal brand, selecting branded colors is an important first step. If your network marketing or MLM company has distinctive brand colors, you might want to incorporate them. Companies use distinctive colors to help brand the product, such as XanGo’s orange…

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Designed by You (Part 1): Design Software

In our recent articles about personal brand, we talked about apps you can use to develop a consistent look and feel to your branded material. At that time, we didn’t talk about perhaps the most powerful digital solution for your graphic design needs, Photoshop (and its budget friendly counterparts, Pixlr and GIMP). If you’ve never…

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Technology Spotlight: Fiverr

As an internet marketer, I am constantly looking at the latest trends and tools that can help me make sure my marketing campaigns—conveyed through web pages, downloadable documents, business cards, and other branded materials—perform at their finest. In 2009, I was telling a co-worker that the business cards I had ordered through our in-house designer were…

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Outsourcing Your Designs

This week we begin a series of articles about visual design. When it’s time to develop branded materials for your online presence or for a big launch, you can choose to outsource those projects or design materials on your own. If you’re looking to outsource, you have more options than you might know. Hiring and…

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